Afro latin and popular music

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  • There are 3 major influences
    1. Indigenous
    2. Spanish Portuguese
    3. African
  • There are 3 usages for Afro Latin music
    1. Religious Worship
    2. Ceremonies
    3. Leisure time
  • Maya culture under meso american influence
    First contribution is the Instruments
  • Wind instruments - these are the instruments produced sound by means of blowing
  • Percussion instruments - refers to the fact that most idiophones and membranophones are sounded by being struck.
  • The contribution of spanish portuguese is their language and the second contribution is music style
  • The contribution for african influence is beats, percussion instruments and samba, salsa, merengue, bachata, and timba
  • Jazz - is a broad style of music characterized bycomplex harmony syncipated rhymes and a heavy emphasis
  • Cumbia - It is a type of dance similar to salsa and uses instruments like accordions, guitars, and percussions
  • Tango - this is a lively spirited dance of two people.
  • Cha-cha - THis is a latin american ballroom dance
  • Bossanova - This is a tyle of music that was derived from samba, which is an original brazilian music
  • Pasadoble - It is spain's traditional couple dance, traditionally played in bull fighting
  • Reggae - This is a jamaican form of music and dance with strong, accented, and supplementary beats
  • reggae is also known as the- ska in 1960
  • bob marley - the popular artist of reggae
  • Rumba - this is a kind of song and dance that originated from cuba
  • foxtrot -It is a ballroom dance of two quick slow steps
  • Bombo - it is a dual headed drum from a deep tree trunk
  • Chajchas - it is a rattle made up of dried hooves from sheep, Llama, or goat and is worn with a wrist cloth bracelet
  • Zamponas - it is a panpipe type of reed made up of bamboo that are tied together
  • Charango - instrument made up of the shell of an armadillo, this is a ten string guitar
  • quena - it is a flute made of bones or bamboo that has a vertical notched reed
  • cajon - it is a regular box made of woof
  • Maracas - these are instruments made of gourd- like- coconut shells with beans, seeds, or small pebbles placed inside
  • claves - these are a pair of hardwood sticks played by striking them together
  • Jazz style music
    1. Mambo
    2. Bossa Nova
    3. latin jazz